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Mobile
phone subscriptions have boomed in India in recent years as aggressive
cost-cutting by telecoms providers has driven down prices, leading to some of
the cheapest tariffs in the world ©Manjunath Kiran (AFP)
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India notched up its
billionth mobile phone subscriber in October, the country's telecoms regulator
said, underscoring the importance of its fast-growing mobile market, the
world's second-largest after China. Mobile phone subscriptions have boomed in India
in recent years as aggressive cost-cutting by telecoms providers has driven
down prices, leading to some of the cheapest tariffs in the world.
